Prepared by
Yetunde Bodude
Fall 2015
Assessment
Activities undertaken by teachers and
their students in assessing themselves,
which provides information used as a
feedback to modify teaching and
learning activities
Types of
Assessments
PreAssessment
Formative
Feedback
Summative
Pre-Assessment
• Determines what the student knows and does not about
a topic or concept
• Determines student’s learning style or preferences
• Used to tell how well a student can perform a certain set
of skills related to the subject/topic/concept
• Done at the beginning of a unit of study
• Used to inform of instruction
• Serves as initial phase for assessment for learning
Formative
• Used during teaching and learning process
• Determines student’s knowledge and skills as unit of
study progresses
• Determines learning gaps as unit of study progresses
• Used to inform instruction and guide learning
• Serves as the subsequent phase for assessment for
learning
Summative
• Done at the end of a unit of study
• Helps to determine level of understanding achieved by
student on taught concept
• Includes a mark or grade against an expected standard
• Used to tell how well a student can perform a certain set
of skills related to the subject/topic/concept
• Done at the beginning of a unit of study
• Used to inform of instruction
Feedback
• Be based on evidence of student understanding
• Be integrated into regular classroom practice
• Yield actionable insights that students can and will use
• Provide students with opportunities to improve
performance
• Give enough information to enable students perform
required corrections on classroom tasks
• Focus on what, how and why of a problem
• Provide suggestions on how improvement on quality of
work can be achieved
Assessment that Supports Learning
Comprehensive
Assessment
• Process of eliciting evidence of student’s
understanding and adapting instruction to increase
rate of learning
• Integrated into regular classroom practice
Key Steps of Comprehensive
Assessment
• Set challenging, meaningful learning goals
• Provide students with multifaceted criteria defining
success
• Use evidence of students’ understanding to provide
actionable feedback throughout learning process
• Motivate students to improve performance
Assessment Approaches That Supports
Learning
• Class discussion: reveals students’ level of
understanding, reasoning processes, questions, and
misconceptions which help inform instruction during
discussion and future lessons
• Differentiated learning: involves tailoring formats,
activities, and assessments that can be used to learn and
show mastery of a concept to students' abilities, needs,
and interests.
Assessment Approaches That Supports
Learning..(contd.)
• Response to Intervention: incorporates differentiated
instruction and provides 3-level of increasing intense
support based on students’ performances on benchmark
assessment.
• Data-driven instruction: collecting, interpreting, and
dissemination of data to improve instructional decisionmaking in coordinated effort. Data is used to inform
decision-making, set goals, prioritize and make
intervention plans.
Assessment Approaches That Supports
Learning..(contd.)
• Self-assessment: engages the student in applying given
criteria to analyze and improve own work. Improves
student performance and helps them to self correct.
• Peer assessment: engages students in analyzing one
another’s work against set criteria. Helps improve the
performance of the student assessing and the student
being assessed.
Conclusion
Assessment is done to create self-regulated learners who can
leave school able to learn through out life. Assessment can be
used to achieve this and support learning by applying the steps
for a comprehensive assessment program as detailed above. This
will not only improve learning but also increase students’
motivation, self-confidence, self-efficacy and overall success of
teaching and learning
References
Vega, V. (2014, January 29). Comprehensive assessment research review.
Retrieved November 3, 2015, from Edutopia:
http://www.edutopia.org/comprehensive-assessment-research
Vega, V. (2014, January 29). Comprehensive assessment research review:
Providing feedback. Retrieved November 3, 2015, from Edutopia:
http://www.edutopia.org/comprehensive-assessment-research-provideongoing-actionable-feedback
Wikipedia. (2015, November 3). Assessment for learning. Retrieved from
Wikipedia.org: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment_for_learning